WOOD RIVER — It finally hit Brittany Roady in the fifth inning that perfection was at her fingertips.

The Alton senior pitcher was cruising along, mowing down batter after batter with a comfortable lead for the second time in as many days.

Roady didn’t finish with a perfect game, but in her words, “The ‘W’ is all that matters.”

Roady finished with a complete-game one-hitter and was backed by a five-RBI performance from freshman Tami Wong in Alton’s 11-0 five-inning nonconference win against host East Alton-Wood River Tuesday at EA-WR High School.

The Redbirds (2-0), who held off Quincy 9-7 in their opener on Monday, was faced with little resistance with Roady on the mound.

“I went out there the last inning and it just hit me all of the sudden,” said Roady, who finished with eight strikeouts and no walks. “I was like, ‘Wow, this could be a perfect game.’ I knew how many strikeouts I had; two more was my goal, but as soon as it hit me that it could be a perfect game, I could not put anything over the plate and she went and got that one; it was a good hit. It did upset me a little bit.

“I wish I wouldn’t have thought about it. I think it would have changed things for sure.”

She being EA-WR’s Emme Flanigan, who doubled to left with one out in the fifth inning but was stranded at third. It would be the only base runner the Oilers (2-3) would see run on this day.

“She did a very nice job; she pitched a very good game after throwing a very good game (Monday),” Alton coach Dan Carter said of Roady. “… She’s the workhorse of our team, senior leader. She wants the ball, wants to be in the circle and we’re going to give it to her as long as she’s feeling healthy and feeling good.

“I wasn’t going to take her our today knowing we had (a perfect game) going.”

EA-WR’s Morgan Moxey was not as fortunate in the circle for the Oilers, although she was the victim of some untimely errors.

The Oilers committed four of them in all that led to 10 unearned runs, as Moxey finished with two walks and seven strikeouts to go with the six hits she allowed.

“She’s proven that she belongs,” EA-WR coach Dana Emerick said of Moxey. “We’ve put our trust in her. She’s our No. 1 and did a great job. I know at one point, they had five runs on one or two hits. No problems there. We’re happy to have her pitch for us.”

Alton supplied all the offense Roady would need when Wong’s swirling opposite-field home run to right got caught in a jet stream and sliced away from EA-WR right fielder Bekah Null with one out in the second inning for a 1-0 Redbirds lead.

Wong would again come up with a big hit in the third with a two-out, two-run double as Alton plated four in the third and she capped her day at the plate with a two-run single in a six-run fifth.

“Tami’s a work in progress,” Carter said. “We don’t want to put her up there too fast, too quick. We knew she was going to be coming in and she does a nice job. She works hard, she’s very coachable. Even better than her hitting, she’s very versatile.

“… That double was a real nice hit. She turned on that pitch and got it right down the line. That was probably a better at-bat than the one that was the home run.”

When Alton was able to come up with two big offensive innings in this game, they came after critical errors in the field by the Oilers. Two in each of the third and fifth innings led to the 10 unearned runs.

Alton sophomore Taylor Herrin laced a bases-clearing triple into the right-center field gap in the top of the fifth inning to provide the necessary runs to make it a short game.

“Let’s face it, Alton’s better than us,” Emerick said. “For us to beat them, we’ve got to come up with an extraordinary effort and we didn’t do that tonight.”

ALTON 11, EA-WR 0

Alton 014 06 — 11 6 0

EA-WR 000 00 — 0 1 4

Alton (2-0) — Presley 1-3, Wong 3-3 HR 2B RBI-5, Hartman 1-3, Herrin 1-2 3B RBI-3. WP-Roady IP-5 H-1 R-0 ER-0 BB-0 K-8.

EA-WR (2-3) — Flanigan 1-2 2B. LP-Moxey IP-5 H-6 R-11 ER-1 BB-2 K-7.

Reach Louie Korac at telegraphsports@hotmail.com